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Port Power right to ignore sponsor's Davis-Fevola deal
8 Dec 2011Port Adelaide are a club on their knees right now, after a disastrous 2011 on and off the field. So you can understand the jokes which began following a string of stories about the club, regarding a training bust-up and a sponsor’s $1 million move for Brendan Fevola or Leon Davis. The South Australian club [...]
Including Scully Snr in salary cap only increases suspicion
1 Dec 2011Either Phil Scully’s recruitment role at Greater Western Sydney is legitimate and outside the salary cap, or it’s part of his son Tom’s playing contract and sits inside the salary cap. That’s the plain and simple truth. Yet somehow the whole issue has become murky. AFL salary cap investigations officer Ken Wood said: “Really what [...]
Will Brendan Fevola get a third chance at the AFL draft?
24 Nov 2011There’s something a bit anti-climactic and uninspiring about this year’s AFL Draft due to happen on Thursday in western Sydney. The fact newboys GWS have 11 of the first 14 picks, multiplied by the lack of well-known delisted talent in the draft makes it a bit of a non-event. But, of course, then there’s former [...]
Eddie McGuire's hypocrisy is embarrassing
17 Nov 2011On Triple M radio on Wednesday, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire vowed to make it his life ambition to destroy the AFL’s newest franchise GWS Giants if they made a pitch for Pies star onballer Scott Pendlebury. It makes you wonder what the boys at AFL House were thinking, considering their investment in the start-up club? [...]
NRL won't give AFL a free-kick in western Sydney
10 Nov 2011The NRL certainly haven’t afforded the AFL’s newest franchise Greater Western Sydney any special favours following the release of the 2012 season fixture list with several regional blockbusters going up against Giants home games. And, honestly, you can’t really blame them for doing so. Indeed, it’s a clear signal of intent from the NRL that [...]
Is Sheedy providing good or bad publicity for GWS?
3 Nov 2011When GWS announced in 2009 that veteran coach Kevin Sheedy had joined the club on a three-year deal to be their coach, there were a lot of sceptics who said the move was only about generating publicity in Western Sydney. After all, Sheedy is one hell of a character. Indeed, the long-time Essendon coach had [...]
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